Hi there,

I was looking for a solution to turn off my UNRAID-server at midnight and starting it automatically in the morning.

The BIOS is able to start the server at e. g. 8 a.m. After installing the Dynamix S3 plugin I was hoping it could shut down the server at 11 p.m.

But, turns out, the plugin just offers the possibility to listen to a WOL-packet.

Now, I am looking for a way to shut down the server at 11 p.m. at some days, so the BIOS starts it again the next morning.

Could you tell me how to shut down the server mo-fr 11 p.m. automatically the easy way ?

You could use the user scripts plugin with a custom script running powerdown the days/times you want.

Could you tell me where to find the shut down script?

You just need to add that to a user script, e.g.:

#!/bin/bash
/usr/local/sbin/powerdown

I use that technique with just a few extra lines in my script that may not be strictly necessary but I think makes it a bit tidier.

logger "overnight powerdown"
pkill rsync
shutdown -h now

For me I worked out that shutting down overnight when the server would not be used is worth about £200 annually in reduced electricity costs so definitely worth doing..

That was also the impetus that made me think it was worth getting the 'restart' option working in the Parity Check Tuning plugin so I did not lose progress on an array operation if a scheduled overnight shutdown occurred.